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Sunday, 5 August 2012

The first Saturday in August so, summer or not, it must be the Borrowdale fell race – it is and summer arrived to celebrate the occasion. The, now metric, statistics of 26k and 2000m of climbing do little or nothing to convey the challenge of the race and, of course, they don’t even hint at the fantastic atmosphere both before and after.

REGISTRATION

Albert Sunter, Tony Varley and Mark Birbeck at Registration

Ready for a big day out

THE START FIELD

Final reminder of some of the rules from Scoffer

THE RACE

The marshals at Dale Head – the final check point

I have had better “Borrowdales” but I have also had worse ones and although this was hard and too hot almost all the way round I was enjoying myself until cramp struck descending to Honister – Dale Head is always going to be a slog anyway and today was no exception. A cheery word from the marshals helped and the rolling rumbles of thunder lent a sense of urgency to the final descent. Just missed getting under 5 hours which was a slight disappointment but really neither here nor there in a great day out.